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Algist Bruggeman Uses Insights from InfluxDB to Optimize Industrial Processes and Production

Founded in 1884 and located in Ghent, Belgium, Algist Bruggeman supplies fresh, liquid, and dried yeast to industrial, semi-artisanal, and artisanal bakeries, as well as to the beer, wine, and pharma industries. Algist Bruggeman is part of the Lesaffre Group, a key global player in fermentation for more than a century. Even with more than a century of industrial production behind it, Algist Bruggeman continues to evolve its manufacturing processes.

Data Center Skills in High Demand in 2022

As modern data centers grow increasingly complex and distributed, data center technology and infrastructure can become more difficult to manage, and it becomes harder for IT decision-makers to find qualified candidates. According to Uptime Institute, 50% of data center owners and operators are struggling to find qualified candidates. In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated industry trends such as remote data center management, deepening the already severe data center skills gap.

Episode 2: Mooving to Remix: Code You Will be Happy With

Episode 2 of Mooving to… dives into a new tool called Remix, a framework to help create front-end code, you’ll love. This episode focuses on a new web framework that helps streamline your processes and eliminate downtime to the best of your ability. Thom Duran and Andrew Leonard of Moogsoft are joined by Kent C. Dodds, Director of Developer Experience at Remix.

Elastic: Introduction to NLP models and vector search

Introducing modern NLP and native vector search in Elasticsearch. Leverage new ML models to understand context, increase speed and improve results. Unlock advanced text analytics like named entity recognition (NER), semantic text embedding, emotion and sentiment analysis, or text classification with significantly less effort and time. Start with pre-built models or scale your own.

Elastic: Getting Started with Kibana

Kibana is a window into the Elastic Stack and the user interface for the Elastic Search Platform. It allows you to visualize and explore data as well as manage and monitor the entire Elastic Stack. This webinar is perfect for users that are new to Kibana and are looking for a primer on how to get started with exploring data, creating visualizations, and setting up a dashboard. Watch a demo of going from a Kibana installation to a full dashboard in a matter of minutes.

Observability Pipelines for Dummies

How do you get the data out of your infrastructure and applications in order to properly observe, monitor, and secure their running states while minimizing overlap, wasted resources, and cost? Many business folks need a broad category of tools in all their environments to solve challenges such as up and down monitoring, metrics, a time series database (TSDB), log analytics, event streaming, security information and event management (SIEM), user behavior analytics (UBA), and data lakes. The answer to the proposed question to solve these hurdles is using an observability pipeline.

10 Microsoft Teams Performance Use Cases for IT Admins

Dependence on Microsoft 365 and Teams has never been greater, and the pressure is on for IT teams to deliver exceptional user experiences - anytime, anywhere. The modern workplace sees users connecting from the office, home and pretty much any place in between. This hybrid work model has a significant impact on IT, the network and the overall quality of service perceived by the users.

Designing production-ready AWS serverless applications

Serverless has become an increasingly popular paradigm among organizations looking to modernize their applications as it allows them to increase agility while reducing their operational overhead and costs. But the highly distributed nature of serverless architectures requires developers to rethink their approach to application design and development. AWS-based serverless applications hinge on AWS Lambda functions, which are stateless and ephemeral by design.

Best practices for building serverless applications that follow AWS's Well-Architected Framework

In part 1 of this series, we looked at common design principles and patterns for assembling microservices in serverless environments. But when it comes to building serverless applications, designing your architecture is only part of the challenge. You also have to ensure that each of your individual functions and services are secure, reliable, and highly performant—without incurring enormous costs.